Monday, June 09, 2008

PC World: Vista's Despised UAC Nails Rootkits It can spot [all] rootkits [used in the tests] before they install. While only six of 30 rootkits could run on the OS, the testers had to turn off UAC to get even that far. Vista's UAC itself spotted everything thrown in front of it.  [That alone got me to turn UAC back on although rootkit authors simply may not be interested in engineering for Vista.]. When testing Windows XP, of 30 rootkits thrown at XP anti-malware scanners, the best of the all-purpose suites was Avira AntiVir Premium Security Suite, which found 29 active rootkits. The anti-rootkit tools fared better with four achieving perfect scores but all failed to remove any of the rootkits they had found. 4:58:17 PM    comment []